EC Travel Grant – Attending the IUSS Centennial

EC Travel Grant – Attending the IUSS Centennial

I applied for the Early Career Travel Grant to attend the IUSS Centennial Celebration Conference. I discovered the grant through the BSSS website as an early career member. I received £500, which I put towards accommodation costs.  The event celebrated 100 years since...
EC Travel Grant for Wildfire Conference

EC Travel Grant for Wildfire Conference

I would like to thank the British Society of Soil Science (BSSS) for the Early Career Travel Grant that allowed me to attend the UK Wildfire 2024 Conference in Aberdeen. This event was significant for my PhD research, which concerns wildfire behavior and soil impacts...
Funding Education Through the BSSS Brian Chambers Grant

Funding Education Through the BSSS Brian Chambers Grant

On the 10 and 11 April, I attended the British Society of Soil Science’s ‘Practical Introduction to Soils in Great Britain’, held at the beautiful Shuttleworth College in Bedfordshire. It was a course I had earmarked to attend several years ago when my interest in...
Brian Chambers Soils Fund

Brian Chambers Soils Fund

I applied for the Brian Chambers Soils Fund grant in February 2023 in order to attend A Practical Introduction to Soils in England and Wales which was being held at Shuttleworth College in April 2023. As a student, I thought that attending this two-day training day...
Field Equipment and Innovation Grants

Field Equipment and Innovation Grants

Unearthing the importance of soil with Edible Landscapes by Katy Faulkner (Early Career Committee Meeting) For the final two weeks of March 2022, the community education project, Edible Landscapes London (ELL), ran soil-themed sessions for local schoolchildren with...